The Cunctator wrote:
On 11/11/02 12:48 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
Your solution to the "dilemma" I posed fails to take the bull by the horns.
Our goal is NOT to build a free Wiki encyclopedia, but rather to build a free encyclopedia. Our choice of the Wiki Way is a means to the end, not an end in itself.
Hardly. There's a reason this is called "Wikipedia". The Wiki software is what distinguishes this project from other projects such as Nupedia, which also had the goal to build a free encyclopedia.
Well, I myself started at the "gnupedia" project, which later changed its name to "GNE" and vanished soon afterwards. By that time, I had already switched to Nupedia, which still dies a lonely and forgotten death, and came to wikipedia, 'cause that's where the action and the fun was. Today, I seem rather attracted to the soon-to-be "Larrypedia" project. To cut it short, my goal was always to work on a free encyclopedia. Wiki is just the tool that got the best results so far. It seems that's what Ed Poor feels like too. Jimbo probably as well, as he started with Nupedia. But, we might be a minority ;-)
Magnus